Remove from the oven and press an unwrapped Hershey’s Kisses candy into the center of each cookie.

Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

For Peanut Butter Cuppies:

Press rolled balls into the cavities of a mini muffin tray.

Place an unwrapped Reese’s peanut butter cup into each.

Bake for 8-10 minutes.

Remove. Let cool and then drizzle with chocolate if desired.

Note: you can bake these in wrappers or directly in the pan.

Note: There are about 36 Reese’s and around 70 Kisses in a regular size bag. I forgot to count how many this recipe will make, but if you go with Kisses, you’ll definitely have enough candies. Guess I’ll just have to make them again. Darn.

Oh My Gosh Girl…… I made your “Comfort Cookies” and what can i tell? just more than AWESOME (double it) can’t wait to try this version with kisses on top…………….. yum… yum….. by now i’ll continue with my cake balls :)

How funny! Just tonight I walked through the kitchen and thought to myself, ‘we should make some kissey cookies!’ we call them kissy cookies and they have been a holiday tradition for years and years! We’ve never done the cuppise though. Man, those look deicious too!

@Erin Maree: You can find Reeses Mini peanut butter cups at many convenience stores in capital cites. They’re everywhere in the Sydney CBD. Also, try Sugar Fix or USA Foods if you have no luck elsewhere.

yum yum yum! I love these! I always called them Peanut Butter Buttons for no other reason than when you look at them from the top, they look like buttons. I made these once last year with the Hershey’s Kisses filled with CARAMEL! Sooooo tasty!

Oh, with the PB cups, those are my family’s favorite….in fact I was thinking of making some this week! We do the muffin cup version, putting the PB cups in after they bake. My husband had never had them until my daughter brought some home from my mom’s about a year ago. He is now in love with them!

It just so happens that I made a batch of these yesterday…a request … nice batch – 100 cookies (tho’ some of them have “mysteriously disappeared”…hmm. Hubby complains about the job of ‘taster’, but OK!!! Yea, big bother.

Syma, you should unwrap the candies before baking.. I would think this comment on cuppies: Note: you can bake these in wrappers or directly in the pan., means you can use mini cupcake wrappers or not.. I thought the same when I read the note.. :)

Lovely! I made something similar last year (straight off of Hershey’s website) with red and green sprinkles, only I used the peppermint kisses (red sprinkles) and mint truffle kisses (green sprinkles). See? http://probablytabitha.com/2010/12/15/christmas-cookies/ (Uh, please disregard the crap quality of my photos.)

This makes me SOO jealous!
i´m from germany, and we dont have sprinkles like you have, and on top we dont have sweets like this.
And in every american baking blog i´m reading someone use this to make such beauties!
one time ill travel to the us just to shop things for baking ^^

The peanut butter blossoms were a recipe on the Land o Lake’s butter pkg way back in the day, my grandmother made them every year for Christmas. She used Brach stars unless she could not find them then she used Kisses, she pressed the chocolate in the cookie pre baked and it held its shape as long as you didn’t touch it until cooled. After she passed it took me years to recreate the recipes she made for us as kids, I was never able to find out who got her recipe box, although Nanny was the kind that baked by hand measurements, and memory, she never measured flour or sugar.

The year I had most of her recipes recreated I sent each of my brothers a box of treats for Christmas, my one brother wanted to make these cookies, but he had to use the kisses. lol he forgot to unwrap them before he put them in the unbaked cookie!!! When I make them now and I know he will be there I make a few “special” ones for him, lol.

Every Christmas Nanny made the peanut butter blossoms, Lemon Tarts, had lemon curd in them, yummy, and the one it took me the longest to find was Tea Cakes, it is a cake like texture sugar cookie, that is a drop cookie, I knew it had sour milk in it, I use buttermilk.

Another thing she made was cinnamon pie, I have found the recipe once, it was called finger pie, because when she would make her pies every Saturday morning, she always had a little dough left and if I was there, she would roll it out and put it in a small pie pan, then add a scoop of sugar, flour, cinnamon. You stirred that with your finger right in the crust, then you add milk and stir again with the same unlicked finger, then it was baked. It makes the most delicious sinful treat, when it is done it has a layer of about 3/8 of an inch of cinnamon gooeyness!!!

LuvHP, I changed my recipe around and used a chocolate cookie recipe with peppermint or the truffle kisses the otherday because i was baking for someone with a PB allergy. Not exactly the same, but was still a huge hit.

I also make the reeses ones, but instead of baking the reeses, i do the cookies the same as with the kisses, and then push the reeses into the cookie once the cookies are out of the oven. It works out as a great task for my husband to do!

Thank you so much for this post! These were so fun to make with my toddlers. I multiplied this recipe by 4 and baked both kisses and cups for the Christmas Goodie Table at work. They were a hit and brought back memories for some!

I love peanut butter blossoms…I make these every year for Christmas…But I don’t use plain sanding sugar…I make a Christmas blend of the red, green, and regular sanding sugars and roll my cookies in it….makes them more festive!

Oh, you are a wonderfully bad influence. I was going to make a batch of these with the Kisses next week, but I’m thinking I may have to make some with the Reese’s cups instead. Or in addition to. You can never have too many, right?

Peanut Butter Cuppies?! I have never made these. They look ridiculously delicious! And I can never resist Peanut Butter Kisses. When we make them I eat entirely too many. I am SO looking forward to receiving your book for Christmas this year. I know this because I put it in the cart at Target and told my husband to wrap it!